Editor,

I do not normally respond to letters in the paper, but one letter I could not ignore. It was the letter from the man claiming that "Disasters are punishment for abortion."

This letter hit me hard, with both a sense of anger and a sense of pity for someone who could honestly be so ignorant and closed-minded.

Mr. Mohs may want to do a little research before he claims that God is punishing us for allowing abortions, by causing natural disasters and economic hardship, when the truth of the matter is that it was our soon-to-be former president and his team of mass murderers who have led us into the mess we are facing. Thank God President-Elect Obama is planning to get us out of the "mass murder" that our current president has commanded.

I find it ironic that the writer mentioned the lives lost to Hitler. Well, how many lives have been needlessly lost to the war, all in the name of money?

As for abortion, I would like to ask Mr. Mohs two questions: first, how long has he been a woman, faced with the difficult life decisions that abortion imposes on a woman, and second, how many adopted children does he have? It is easy for us to point fingers at one another but the truth of the matter is this: we have laws in our country for a reason, and although I agree abortion is never ideal, it is in fact the decision of each woman, not of a man wanting to impose his own closed-minded beliefs. God gave us all the ability to make our own decisions and commands us to love one another, not judge!

God Bless this great country we live in, where are all allowed choice!

Shannon Oquist

Marysville

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